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Fletcher Angus <1930-2016.> |
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Titolo |
A new theory for American poetry : democracy, the environment, and the future of imagination / / Angus Fletcher |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 316 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Environmental protection in literature |
Democracy in literature |
Ecology in literature |
Nature in literature |
Imagination |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-310) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Clare’s Horizon -- 2 The Argument of Form -- 3 Description -- 4 Ashbery’s Clare -- 5 Diurnal Knowledge -- 6 The Whitman Phrase -- 7 The Environment-Poem -- 8 Waves and the Troping of Poetic Form -- 9 Middle Voice -- 10 Ashbery and the Becoming of the Poem -- 11 Meditating Chaos and Complexity -- 12 “The Long Amazing and Unprecedented Way” -- 13 Coherence -- 14 Precious Idiosyncrasy: An Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Rather than treating American poets as the happy or rebellious children of European romanticism, Fletcher uncovers a distinct lineage for American poetry. His point of departure is the English writer John Clare - he then centres on the radically American vision expressed by Emerson and Walt Whitman. |
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